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Chapter 312 - 312 153 The second time building an army the team is in its initial stage_2
312: Chapter 153: The second time building an army, the team is in its initial stage_2 312: Chapter 153: The second time building an army, the team is in its initial stage_2 Shocked as they were, after detailed discussions, Leon still approved the plan to train the crossbowmen.
In the battle of Longka, if there were crossbowmen who could match the enemy’s, with the advantage of terrain, those conscripted soldiers from the Wolf Territory might flee in disarray before even engaging the enemy.
The power of the arrows shot from Silver Mountain Light Crossbows, as Brian said, still posed a significant threat to ordinary armored soldiers, not to mention that the average armored infantryman couldn’t be as thoroughly equipped as a Knight Master, and arrows flying into the unprotected parts of the armor would take the life of a big and strong elite infantryman.
After calculating the costs, this could indeed be considered quite cost-effective, of course, provided that they were commanded properly.
Having established the recruitment plans for Chain Armor Spearmen and crossbowmen, Leon then turned his attention to a force even more important than the former two.
That was naturally the Cavalry.
Now in his own squad, Sir Redo and his attendants had left the team, and the young Angela, who had come to aid Eriv out of gratitude, returned to Eriv’s side during their time in Wacht Castle.
After losing these four foreign aids, including Leon’s own armor and horse gear, he currently had a total of twenty-four warhorses and thirty complete sets of Heavy Armor.
There were quite a few ordinary riding packhorses, but those animals bought for the sentinels and for daily labor pulling goods could not be considered “War Beasts”; they were incapable of bearing the intense burden of Heavy Cavalry.
In terms of the number of riders, there were himself, Kovis, plus six Heavy Armor Guards who learned horse riding with him daily, as well as Olivia and Mr.
Brian Sr., Azeryan and Lokhak, and their own attendants from after the Battle of Longka.
All told, there were fourteen Heavy Cavaliers, and there were still ten war mounts that needed riders to fill the cavalry ranks.
Thus, the order of army building naturally placed the Guard Cavalry as the highest priority, followed by the elite crossbowmen equipped with Silver Mountain Crossbows, and lastly, the ordinary Chain Armor Infantry.
This time, the candidates for the Guard Cavalry did not need to undergo the trials set by Leon like the original six men did.
But during their training period, they would only receive the same pay as the common soldiers, and only after their horsemanship was qualified, proving themselves to be true Heavy Cavalry rather than just mounted infantry, would they receive the salary deserving of an elite cavalryman.
Of course, Leon was not intending to close the door on his warriors’ attempts to rise through the ranks as quickly as possible.
It was still the old rule, he welcomed his warriors to come and challenge.
As long as someone could withstand five strikes of the sword from him, now commonly a Knight of Valor, without defeat.
They could still, like Zabron and the others, become one of the initial guards, enjoying the generous income given to the six guards after receiving a raise from him.
The formal guards had already received a pay raise.
The valor and loyalty of the six guards in Longka proved that he, as their Lord, could entrust them with his flag and his back.
So today, since he as their Lord had prospered, he would certainly not forget to let his personal guards enjoy the benefit of rising tides.
But not only they received high salaries.
Not to mention Leon himself as a Lord, separate from the public accounts, or Lokhak and Azeryan.
Among the elite cavalry in the territory now, the one with the highest income was still Mr.
Brian Sr.
Due to the irreplaceable role that his future father-in-law played in commanding and building the troops, Leon naturally gave Old Centurion a standard salary of an Inner Court Knight without hesitation.
That was ninety Gold Coins a year.
Follwing that were Olivia and Kovis; both of their annual salaries would be comparable to the market price for hiring Heavy Cavalry, at forty-three Gold Coins a year.
In fact, Leon initially wanted to grant Olivia, the first “Batulu” of his command, and Kovis, the “Chief Wizard,” the same knight-level treatment as Uncle Bryan.
The girl was the leading contributor in capturing an officer, and Kovis’s supply of Magic Power was key to Leon’s successful charge into battle.
However, when the two declined, Leon reluctantly persuaded these two great contributors to accept an annual salary of forty-three gold crowns.
Considering his other arrangements for everyone that were imminent, he did not force his lover and comrade to accept this high salary.
Then there were Zabron and Hawk along with other Guards.
Their annual salaries were raised from twenty-four Gold Coins to thirty Gold Coins.
Finally, there were the knight followers of Azeryan and Lokhak, the two from Platon; they would enjoy the same standard annual salary as the ordinary Guard Cavalry from Selva, which was about twenty-one Gold Coins.
However, the money would no longer be distributed by Leon.
Azeryan and Lokhak would use the allocated funds and their territorial income to support their own house servants.
Although according to tradition and custom, most attendants do not receive a salary during their service to their Lord, these two surviving village heroes from the Battle of Longka were not attendants in the traditional sense, who follow their master from a young age.
They were significantly older than both Azeryan and Lokhak, and their Martial Arts were up to the Cavalry standard, so everyone felt that it was more fitting to treat them as real independent warriors and give them the corresponding treatment.
With the future ten Guards included, the basic salary expenses for the miscellaneous cavalry units added up together would require an annual outlay of six hundred and eight Gold Crowns.
Due to the insufficient size of pasturelands in the Three Kingdoms, the number of livestock in the territory seriously exceeded the carrying capacity of the grasslands, so the maintenance costs for the twenty-four warhorses also soared to nearly four hundred Gold Coins a year.
Maintaining a mere twenty-four Heavy Cavaliers cost over a thousand Gold Coins, and this was not a one-time investment like buying Silver Mountain Crossbows and other equipment.
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